If you wear clothes, use passwords, close doors, use envelopes, or sometimes speak softly, then you do have something to hide; you’re just having trouble understanding that you already do care about privacy. Here are some references to help you understand why everyone, especially honest hard-working people, needs privacy. TechRepublic – Why ‚Nothing to Hide‘ […]

by Martin Brinkmann on January 6, 2017 in Google Chrome Last Update: January 6, 2017 Silverdog is a free browser extension for Google Chrome — it should work in other Chromium-based browsers as well, and maybe even Firefox (not tested) — that acts as an ultrasound firewall in the browser. In Talking Behind Your Back, security […]

GETTY IMAGES DYSTOPIAN CORPORATE SURVEILLANCE threats today come at us from all directions. Companies offer “always-on” devicesthat listen for our voice commands, and marketers follow us around the web to create personalized user profiles so they can (maybe) show us ads we’ll actually click. Now marketers have been experimenting with combining those web-based and audio approaches to […]

Posted Jul 24, 2014 by Anthony Ha (@anthonyha) Making those connections is particularly important for advertisers because of the lack of cookies for tracking user behavior on mobile. As a point of comparison, Kleiner Perkins- and Sequoia-backed Drawbridge says it examines behavior on multiple devices and uses statistical models to suggest when multiple devices are […]

Privacy advocates warn feds about surreptitious cross-device tracking. DAN GOODIN – 11/13/2015, 7:00 PM 1939, back when ads used to be safe. Privacy advocates are warning federal authorities of a new threat that uses inaudible, high-frequency sounds to surreptitiously track a person’s online behavior across a range of devices, including phones, TVs, tablets, and computers. […]

Posted on October 6, 2016 by Andy Yen Updated October 7, 2016 with additional clarification and analysis of Yahoo’s denial Dear ProtonMail Community, Two weeks ago, we published a security advisory regarding the mass hacking of Yahoo. Unfortunately, due to recent events, we are issuing a second advisory regarding all US email providers. What happened? […]